Dress chart and templet.



S. KOMURA.

DRESS GHART AND TEMPLET- APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 27,1909.

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SANEMON KOMURA, OF SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA.

DRESS CHART AND TEMPLET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 26, 1910.

Application filed March 27, 1909. Serial No. 486,244.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SANEMON KoMURA, citizen of Japan, residing at SanJose, in the county of Santa Clara and State of California, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Dress Charts and Templets, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a chart and pattern, or templet, for cutting outgarments such as ladies waists, coats, jackets and the like. Its objectis to provide a simple, practical chart, and pattern or templet whichcan be fitted readily to the body, being made adjustable to fit personsof diiferent size and figure, and which device can be laid directly uponthe goods, and the goods marked out and cut.

The invention consists of the parts and the construction and combinationof parts, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed, havingreference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is aperspectiveview of the invention as applied. Fig. 2 is a view of thefront pattern. Fig. 3 is a view of the back pattern. Fig. 4: is adetailed view of the waist line adjustment. Fig. 5 is a detail of theshoulder strap.

The invention about to be described is particularly designed to befitted to one side of a person so that one-half of the front andone-half of the back of the waist or jacket can be measured, andthereafter the entire jacket be cut out from this one setting ormeasurement of the device.

A represents a semirigid strip, adapted to be fitted around the waist,and having suitable means at its ends as the strings 2 for securing itthereto. 4

3 is a front piece, vertically slotted near its lower end as at 4, toprovide adjustable connection with a holding-device 5 on the strip A.This holding-device as here shown, is made of metal and adapted to bemoved back and forth along the strip A, through a slot 6 in the latter.The upper end of the front 3 is made hook-shaped, as shown at 7 toengage a flexible neck band-piece 8.

9 is an adjustable shoulder-strap made in two sliding 0r telescopingsections, and slidably connected at one end by a loop 10, or othersuitable means, with the neck-band 8. The opposite end of theshoulder-strap connects with an adjustable arm-hole strap 11; this strap11 having telescoping members 12 sliding in suitable guides in a portionof the said strap 11, so that the arm-hole opening may be enlarged ordiminished according to the measurements to be taken. The lower end ofthe front telescoping member 12 connects with an under arm strap 13which is vertically adjustable in a loop 14: on the strap A. Also thelower end of this semiadjustable arm-hole member 12, and the up per endof its under arm strap 13, are co11- nected with the front 3 by anadjustable or eXtendible arm brace 15.

By means of the parts so far enumerated, the front half of a waist, asis represented in Fig. 2 may be cut out, as will be shortly described.

The rear telescoping member 12 of the arm-hole connects with a secondunder arm strap 16 which is similar to and parallel with the strap 13,and this strap 16 is also vertically slidable in the loop 14 on thestrip A. A sliding loop 17 embraces the two straps 13-16, and whenpushed up toward the arm-hole strap, this loop 17 tends to draw theupper ends of the under arm straps 1316 together and inclose the arm.

18 is a back strap which is slotted lengthwise at its lower end as at19, and engages a holder 20, which is likewise adjustable, in alengthwise extending slot 21 of the" strip A. The upper end of the backstrap 18 has a hook 22 by which it can be engaged with a neck-band 8,and the back strap" is connected with the under arm strap 16 by anextendible back brace 23.

In practice the device is applied to one side of a person who is to befitted, with the shoulder-strap 9 resting on one shoulder, then theneck-strap 8 is fitted to the neck and tied at the ends by means of thestrings 24, and likewise the strip A is tied around the waist. The front3 is then hooked at 7 to the neck-band, and adjusted by means of theadjustable connections provided at 4c, 5 and 6. Likewise the arm-holestrap 11, and its members 12, are fitted around and beneath the arm, andthe sliding loop 17 slipped up against the braces and 23. The under armstraps 1316 being properly adjusted in the loop 14 carried by thewaist-band 8 the back strap 18 being hooked over the neck-band is thensimilarly adjusted, and likewise are the back and front braces 15 and23. In this adjustment of the device to the body, the front strap 3 isdesigned to extend directly down the middle of the body, or tocorrespond to what would be the front of the waist while the back strap18 is positioned, with its outer edge along the line of the center ofthe back.

Having adjusted the various parts in the manner shown, the device isunited at the neck and waist, and taken off, and then laid out upon thegoods. By slipping down the sliding loop 17 the various parts willspread out so as to be laid flat on the goods, and then two sections ofcloth or patterns, represented respectively by Figs. 2 and 3 may be cutout by the device; the pattern or section represented at Fig. 2 beingout along the outside edges of the front 3, shoulder-strap 9, under-armstrap 13, intermediate section of. arm-hole strap 11, and correspondingmovable member 12, and the section of the neckband 8 between the understrap 13 and front 3. The section or pattern correspond ing to Fig. 3 orthe back quartersection of the garment being cut by following the linesof the back strap 18, under-arm strap 16, shoulder-strap 9 of the backportion of the neck 8, arm-hole strap 11, and corresponding member 12,and the back part of thestrip A. In Figs. 2 and 3 I have given thevarious parts of the patterns reference characters corresponding tosimilar straps or parts of the device shown in Fig. 1, that the purposeof the invention may be better understood. The entire garment is cut outwith this one fitting, because the two sides of the garment are simplyduplicated, and one pattern for one sideof the front, and one patternfor one side of the back, serve for the two opposite sides. Thesevarious straps referred to are made of any suitable material like stifi'cardboard, or light sheet metal suitably protected by a clot-hbinding orcovering so that while these parts can be readily fitted to the variouscontours of the body, they will have sufficientinherent rigidity so thatthey may be laid fiaton the material to be cutout to form the properfunctions of a pattern.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desireto secure byLetters Patent is 1. A dress chart and templetcomprising band, and: theotherof said under arn straps having an, adjustable brace connecting itwith the back band, and loops embracing the parallel underarm strapsand. slidably mounted thereonand adapted to draw the upper ends of saidstraps together and inclose the arm.

2. A dress chart and. templet comprising a neck-band, and a waist,strip, connectible and disconnectible from. the wearer, an adjustablefront band, and a siinilarback band connectible and disconnectible fromthe neck-band, an adjustable bendableshoulderstrap carried by theneck-band, an adjustable armrhole band carried by the shoulder strap,parallel, SPZIQGCLUDClQIj arm strapsv carried'by the arnrholeband, andindepend; ently adjustable on the waist-strip, one of said underarnrstraps, having an adjustable brace connecting .it'w iththe frontband, and the other ofsa dnnder arm straps having.

an' adjustable brace connecting it with the back band, said arm-holeband includinga pair of:sliding sections, each of which is connected tol a respective. one of said 1 under.

arm bands, and a sliding loopengaging the two under arm bands.

In testimony whereof Ihave hereunto set,

1ny hand,in presence, of two subscribing witnesses.

SAN EMON KOMURA.

Witnesses:

CJF. WYMAN, M. C. WYMAN.

